Premio Combat Prize

Artwork description: It is inevitable for every human being to go through the process of the formation of personality. The process is an essential part of human development, and its success depends largely on inborn bio-data and social environment. Everybody has different combination of those factors, and some people are luckier than the others. What matter is how to use what you have got, how much efforts to put and how effective they are. In reality, it is a very difficult task. By far not everyone manages to become a complete person, and only very few grow into men of great mark who stand out from the crowd, have their own opinion and principles and aspire to self-development and improvement of the world around. In my opinion, we all should strive to get near to such persons, try to become better than we were yesterday and not only wish, but act.
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Biography: I am Dima Kashtalyan. I live and work in Minsk, Belarus.
My passion for painting started with font graffiti. As time went on, I became interested in characters and full-fledged design. I started to try different techniques. Today, I paint on the walls, paper, canvas, create computer graphics, but anyway I prefer real painting. Now I am mostly focused on black-and-white detailed ink drawing and graffiti. At some point, I understood that, as an author, I am responsible for the meaning and the quality of my artworks that many people see. Since then I am trying to improve from work to work and put a positive message into each of them. I wish my art to make our world better. I want people to look around and think.
Exhibitions:
Fomenar Prize, Jury prize, 2017, Barcelona (Spain)
Salon d’automne with Belgazprombank, 2017, Minsk (Belarus)
I’m Monet, I’m Shishkin, I’m Malevich, Minsk (Belarus), 2017
Concorso per illustratori Tapirulan | XII edizione, Cremona (Italy), 2016
Point, line, spot, Minsk (Belarus), 2015
Artdiario, Rome (Italy), 2015
DOSKИ & KPASKИ, Saint Petersburg (Russia), 2014